Data puts Turkey’s annual inflation at 78.6%, a 24-year high
Annual inflation in Turkey hit 78.62% in June, the highest rate since 1998, according to official data released Monday.
FM Dendias heads to Lugano for Ukraine Recovery Conference
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias was traveling to Lugano in Switzerland on Monday, to represent Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at a working dinner of the heads of delegations participating in the Ukraine Recovery Conference.
Two factors to affect election timing
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has returned from last week’s NATO Summit aware that international developments may decisively determine whether elections will take place in spring 2023, as he has insisted thus far, or as early as September.
Banks, supermarkets start use of digital labor card
Workers at banks and supermarkets started clocking in and out on Friday using the digital labor card, a government measure aimed at safeguarding the working hours of employees.
Hercules completes its labors
The Greek state’s Hercules asset protection mechanism, launched in December 2019, is entering its final leg, with new securitizations of bad loans amounting to 4.5 billion euros by October.
Europe helping Greece fight wildfires
The first of more than 200 firefighters from six European countries that will help their Greek colleagues in fighting wildfires arrived in Athens on Friday.
Reintegration program for dozens of homeless people
The Municipality of Athens is providing subsidized housing, training and work to a total of 56 homeless citizens under its Housing and Work for the Homeless program, which is funded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to the tune of 826,356 euros.
Kea opens spectacular shipwreck dive sites
Jacques-Yves Cousteau would probably have been surprised to learn that the wreck of the World War I Britannic (the sister ship of the legendary Titanic) he discovered in 1975 off southwestern Kea would be listed as an underwater historical site almost 50 years later.
Dozens of firefighters battle blaze in Peloponnese
Nearly 200 firefighters and dozens of municipal workers and volunteers spent the night battling a big blaze in the Peloponnese that started under “suspicious” circumstances on Sunday afternoon and was brought under partial control by Monday morning.
Cyprus’ disengagement from fossil fuels
The government of the Republic of Cyprus took several steps on Friday to break the island’s reliance on fossil fuels.